A Christians Review Of An Agnostics View I read in the Daily News Sun the blustery diatribe against God and Christianity by Mr. John Quatrone. As best as I can make out, he is an agnostic who wishes the European explorers and settlers had not come to America. If that were so great an evil, is his presence here a continuation of that evil? Without documentation, he asserts that Christian churches killed and enslaved 900,000 American Natives. I can not understand how they enslaved all those whom they had first killed. He ponders why any them (aboriginals or Blacks?) would remain a Christian today? It truly would be most difficult for those killed to remain Christians this long. (Just for comparison, the atheistic governments of Russia and China killed some 250 million of their subjects in the name of their religion and China is still working on her project). The gentleman, asserts that the ideas of soul and god are pagan. True, most pagans believe in one or more supreme beings and think of themselves as having a life beyond this. This does not however prove that they originated those ideas. Communists believe in atheism. Does that proved they originated that belief? He charges that one can never prove (that God) exists. I wonder if Mr. Q. would affirm that he knows that God does not exist? As an agnostic, by definition, he is not sure about the existence of God. He can only hope, wish and assert that there is no god, but he can never know for sure! Before he could know there is no God he would have to know everything there is to know in all the cosmos, and personally go everywhere in the cosmos to establish his case. Further he would have to do so simultaneously, lest the one place he did not go, and the one thing he did not know, prove the existence of God. Otherwise, while was here God might be there, or while he was there God might be here. The one thing he failed to know might be the very thing that proved Gods existence. But if could know everything and be everywhere at the same time he would have demonstrated that there is at least one all wise and omnipresent being in the world...and that by definition is a god. Mr. Q. wrongly asserts that emperor Constantine, in 325 A.D., gave Jesus his godly status Im not sure where he got his information, but in 63 A.D. Paul wrote that Jesus existed in the form of God (Phil. 2:5-6), and in 90 A.D. John the Apostle wrote that Jesus, the Word of God, was God in the flesh (John. 1:1-3, 14). He suggests that we (evidently the Federal government), have money for Christian Schools but none for our poor citizens. He did not cite his sources, but anyone who reads the newspaper knows that unbelievers of our nation make sure that no government funds go to Christian schools and each year we channel $74.5 billions of tax dollars into the support of our poor citizens. He would like for us to apply the rule of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. If he would cite that rule to us, perhaps we could consider the possibility. (Note: If Mr. Quatrone is the best spokesman the local unbelievers have we have nothing to fear.)
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:09:46 +0000
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